46th Annual Conference

Sessions Speakers Exhibitors Floor Plan Buzz

Numerical Investigation of Blasting Fume Characteristics in a Block Caving Mine (Room Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Session 7 - Safety and Security

Speaker(s): Yong Pan
It showed that CFD was a very useful method to study blasting fume in underground mine and it took much longer time to dilute toxic fume into a safe level with higher entrapping percentage. The dilution time increased with decrease of broken rock size and porosity.